...evil. 41. 4. I said, Lord, be merciful unto me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. 42. 1. As the hart panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God! Psalm 42. 4. When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me. 5. Why art thou cast down,...

...passages and professions of his own in his devout Psalms; such as Psalm xlii. 1. Ixiii. 1. cxliii. 6. where he borrows the strongest inclinations that are...of his own soul : " As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. — O God, thou art my God ; early will I seek...

...transgressions." See him at another time banished among outcasts, from the commonwealth of Israel. "As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God ; when shall I come and appear before God ?" Again,...

...the spiritual, the holy realities of the upper world. Yes, if the language of our hearts was, " As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God," we should be willing to die, and rejoice to die, as the best, the only means of attaining the...

...for. He may cry out, when he is detained from worshipping God in the great congregation, " Like as the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God : When shall I come to appear in the...

...of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple." Psalm xlii. 1,2. " As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God?" Psalm...

...of soul, as in the patriarch — "0 that I knew where I might find him," and in the Psalmist, " as the hart panteth after the water-brooks so panteth my soul after thee O God." If the light of God's countenance ceases at any time to shine upon the soul, the darkness which...

...unseemly thing in David, when he was driven from the tabernacle of God, to make that lamentation, "As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God ; my soul thirsteth for God, for the living God ; when shall I come and appear before God ? My...

...love. The warmth and fervour of devout affection is expressed in the strongest terms in scripture: "As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, О God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God, when shall I come and appear before God.* Because...

...should increase; but their prayer was, " Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon me;" "As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God ; " " Whom have I in heaven but Thee ? and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison...